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i. Sachin Tendulkar is to be the Captain of
Maharashtra’s Green Army Chief.

ii. He will promote the cause of Environment
in Maharashtra.

Green Army
is an initiative for school children by the state government of Maharashtra.
Every school will nominate its 10 students to undertake various projects for
environment conservation in their respective areas.

2. GIRISH SAHNI IS NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL OF CSIR

i. Girish Sahni is appointed as new director
General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

ii. Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research is an India’s largest Research and Development Organization.

ii. This foundation will organize sports
tournaments across the country.

iii. It will also provide sports coaching to
talented students.

4. BRIDGE PROGRAME OF AUSTRALIA EXTENDED TO NAVODAYA SCHOOLS

i. Australia-India partnership programmeBuilding
Regional Inter Cultural Dialogue and growing engagement(BRIDGE)- The programme
is run by Australian schools in collaboration with Indian Schools, now it has
agreed to include Jawar Navodaya Vidyalayas under this programme earlier only
private schools were part of this programme.

ii. The project is started to improve teacher
capability in science and technology engineering , Mathematics and
Communication ,Technologies etc.

5. NOVAK DJOKOVIC
APPOINTED GOODWILL AMBASSADOR OF UNICEF:

i. World’s no.1 Tennis Player Novak Djokovic
is appointed as Goodwill ambassador of UNICEF.

ii. He also signed memorandum of
Understanding to promote early childhood development

i) UNICEF- United Nation Children’s Fund

ii) HQ- New York, US

iii) UNICEF- provides long term humanitarian and development
assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

i. Union
Government has announced to execute the Sendai Framework for Disaster Reduction
2015-2030 in letter and spirit.

ii. The Sendai framework for disaster Risk
reduction 2015-2030 was adopted during the third UN world Conference on
disaster risk reduction held in Sendai, Japan in march 2015.

The Sendai framework: It is a 15
year Voluntary non binding agreement which recognizes that the state has the
primary role to reduce disaster risk but that responsibility should be shared
with other stakeholders including local government, the private sector and
other stakeholders.